Julian Assange emerges: US war on whistleblowers must end

Now Britain wants to talk, as Ecuador faces the consequences of sheltering Wikileaks founder
By Brian Brady, David Randall, The Independent, Sunday 19 August 2012
The calamitous Foreign Office note to Ecuador – interpreted there and elsewhere as a threat to raid the country’s London embassy where the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, is holed up – was sanctioned by William Hague, despite the grave reservations of lawyers in his department.